This unique work challenges the assumption that dictionaries act as objective records of our language, and instead argues that the English dictionary is a fundamentally ethnocentric work.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2001-01-11
Language: English
Number of Pages: 240
Edition: 1
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..